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@@ -581,6 +581,17 @@ static void __flush_cache_4096(unsigned long addr, unsigned long phys,
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* Break the 1, 2 and 4 way variants of this out into separate functions to
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* avoid nearly all the overhead of having the conditional stuff in the function
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* bodies (+ the 1 and 2 way cases avoid saving any registers too).
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+ *
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+ * We want to eliminate unnecessary bus transactions, so this code uses
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+ * a non-obvious technique.
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+ *
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+ * Loop over a cache way sized block of, one cache line at a time. For each
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+ * line, use movca.a to cause the current cache line contents to be written
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+ * back, but without reading anything from main memory. However this has the
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+ * side effect that the cache is now caching that memory location. So follow
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+ * this with a cache invalidate to mark the cache line invalid. And do all
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+ * this with interrupts disabled, to avoid the cache line being accidently
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+ * evicted while it is holding garbage.
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*/
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static void __flush_dcache_segment_1way(unsigned long start,
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unsigned long extent_per_way)
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